IDR Blog
Vietnam: Indian Prime Minister Modi’s Significant Visit
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Vietnam is significantly well-timed strategically and politically besides reinforcing the time-honoured Vietnam-India Strategic Partnership and making-up for the lack of an Indian Prime Ministerial visit during last 15 years. Regrettable is the fact that India’s Congress Prime...
Suu Kyi’s China Visit: Not a Point of Strategic Worry
State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung Sang Suu Kyi’s recent visit to China from 17-21 August 2016 signalled the importance which Myanmar continues to attach to its ties with Beijing. During the visit Suu Kyi met Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to promote bilateral relations and friendship. She also met with Zhang...
The Politico-Military Disconnect in Kashmir
The recent statement by the Northern Army Commander and the army chief requesting all stakeholders to come together to bring peace to the flaming valley as also participate in supporting a political solution, should have been made ages ago. The Home Minister was in the valley last week, aiming to discuss with a variety of groups seeking a...
A Free and Secular Balochistan will end Extremism and Fundamentalism in Region
The inhabitants of Occupied Balochistan overwhelmingly welcomed the major policy shift of India towards subcontinent by raising the issue of Balochistan globally. Diplomats, historians and intellectuals believe that UN must have intervened in Balochistan in 1948 when Pakistan invaded the sovereign state of Balochistan by violating the UN...
A New Boss for Tibet: Wu Yingjie
Between two swims at the beach resort of Beidaihe, the top Communist leadership undertook a first round of reshuffles in the provinces. Tibet has now a new boss, Wu Yingjie, 59. Wu is the longest serving Chinese officer on the Roof of the World. He has been around for more than 40 years. Till yesterday’s he was deputy party secretary (a post...